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NO. 64374. Patented Apr. 30, 1867.

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JONATHAN F. SHOEMAKER, OF VAN WEB-'1 COUNTY, OHIO. Letters Patent No. 64,374, dated April 30, 1857.

PHOTOGBAPHIC PRINTING FRAME.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN F. Snonnnnnn, of the county of Van Wort, and State of Ohio, have invented r new and improved mode of Printing Photographs; and'I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters and figures of reference uinrked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in enabling the photographer to print and place on the same surface as many groups or figures as he may desire from different negatives.

To enable others skilled in the nrt to make :tnd-use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure (1 represents the printing board partially open, with its folding back, the severnl folds numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. The first foid'( N.'"1',) holds the edges of the negatives firmly for all the openings that may be across the face-board aunder the second fold, 2. The fold 2 will hold the negatives for the openings in fncoboard under N0. 3, and fold 3 will hold them for No. 4,.&c., forany sized frame and any number of pictures. \Yhile No. 1 holds the first row of negatives, thc folding book can be tnrir'ed down to No. 1, so as to inspect the printing in progress through the openings under N0. 2, and as each fold holds thenegntivcs for printing through the openings under the next fold above, the folding back will drop down from oil the prints, lcnving the negatives perfectly firm, so that the progress of the printing may be inspected at any moment with case, by the dropping of the folding back.

Figure B presents the face of the printing-board. The rays of light directed to the face of the board are kept from the paper or other-material by means of small cloth coverings, b b 5, over the openings, (or coverings of any material which will exclude the rays of light,) which are moved or opened and closed at pleasure. As the printing progresses each row of prints is closed by means of back and face coverings, and these prints nt-e notexposed'tothe'light while examining the process of printing the next row above. In the last row of pietu'res there is, of course, but one fold to turn down to inspect the printing. Each print is checked when done, by closing the face opening above it.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The folding-back photographic printing frame, substantially as herein described.

JONATHAN F. SHOEMAKER. Witnesses:

J. S. HARTSOCK, A. MGGANNAM. 

